This article offers a new interpretation of the wave which, in finale Euripides’ Iphigenia Taurica , prevents Greek ship from leaving Taurian land, thus making it necessary for goddess Athena to intervene. My contention is that predictable consequence sacrilege which Greeks are committing by stealing Artemis’ cult statue temple. Therefore, we can detect IT same religious offence–punishment–comp...

Molecular phylogeny suggests a close relationship of Asteraceae to the early evolution of Golovinomyces. The family Asteraceae, with a geographic origin in South America, expanded into the Northern Hemisphere, where it may have been infected by an ancestor of Golovinomyces, thus starting a close hosteparasite relationship. Using this event as a calibration point, we designed molecular clocks fo...

Sigillographic sources from the Taurica supply information on relations of this region with central government along provincial administrations and representatives aristocratic circles Byzantine Empire, as well various Orthodox Church institutions. An illustration to latter could be an eleventh-­century mollybdoboullon discovered in Crimea, which features a rare image Mother God Spelaiotissa (o...